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Say! You know what?! You're an engineer too! So, since you helped me teach my friends a lesson, I'm going to teach you how to make your very own mechanical yeti! Now the fun can go on forever and ever, and you can scare whoever you want! Provided that you can scare up the components to make it that is.

What do you say, <name>? Do you want to learn the secret to making a mechanical yeti?

Comment by vashtii

I got the recipe today on my rogue, who wasn't an engineer before 4.0, but did the old quests back in the day. I did the Lilith questchain before noticing that Umi was already offering A Yeti of Your Own.

tl;dr it looks as if you don't have to do the new questline if you did the old one; just head to Umi and pick up your yeti recipe.

Comment by doomwich

Verified still working as of 8/27/2012 Got the plans on a character created/leveled in patch 4.3.4Follow the steps scottiegazelle posted

Comment by Kythyss

As for this quest.

From blizzard:

Thanks for contacting us! This is Game Master Tyaeralcal. I definitely understand her confusion over the yeti! The issue is, the quest A Yeti of Your Own isn't in the game anymore. While a lot of the quests leading up to it were replaced in Cataclysm, it wasn't. This means that a player could only get it if they did the old version of the quest chain. :(

So there you have it, it is no longer active.

Comment by kwjohnstone

I dont think its in the game now, I did the quest line today... she just gave me the item that has 3 on uses and is gone... no schematic =*(

Comment by Voron97

I'm a lvl 60 DK with 295 goblin enginering... but she doesn't give me the quest :( Is the quest unavailable now or did I do something wrong? I have done all the other quests in Winterspring...

Comment by genius13

I made a REPLY post of this, but I think it may deserve a real post. This is that.

Back when this quest worked, you had to scare several of Umi's friends, and they were not all local. For example, there was one in Un'goro Crater. When the zones were rearranged to what they are now, the other NPCs disappeared, and the quest was modified to only involve scaring the one in Everlook.

My guess is there is a flag in your context block (this is software speak) that got set when each of the three scarings had taken place. When the quest chain was revised, the setting of that flag was overlooked. (It was a byproduct of the quest chain, byproducts are easy to miss.) Now, if the flag in your context block is already set, this quest pops up, but due to the new quest "chain" lacking the proper trigger to set that flag, if it isn't already set you can't set it.

I very much doubt a GM can set it either, but one of the Blizzard engineers could. (Good luck trying to make that happen!) Maybe one day someone at Blizzard will fix it, but I'd have to agree it's gone for now and probably forever.

Comment by Drevik

The quest has been confirmed by the GM as being removed. So, completing the Yeti quest chain will not get you this pattern any longer per Scagarrde, Customer Service Representative

"Hey there!

I sincerely apologize that I was unable to speak with you directly, and for the wait you have had. >.< I hope that you are having a super cool day though!

It appears that the quest has been removed from the game.

Here’s what we need to do to focus on if you would like to see this changed and let the developers hear your ideas. We happen to have couple of venues that you can use to get this done. I’m not sure if you are aware, but have you heard of our Suggestion Feature? I personally like this option the best as it’s very convenient as you can do it while you’re playing, it is automatically forwarded to our developers, and unlike our forums it is just between you and them. To submit this we need to open the help menu in game and select “Submit Suggestion”.

The next venue would be our forum, found on our website at <http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/>. Others will be able to see your posts and openly chat about them. Sometimes this may lead to a more constructive idea, as others would be able to brainstorm along with you about the changes you would like to see! Just choose the forum that relates to what you would like to see changed and post your thoughts and ideas there.

The decision making process and all the changes that happen to the game is done by our developers, sadly not game masters. If you want more information about this new system check this out <<http://us.battle.net/support/en/blog/4684045>>

I hope you have a great rest of the day!"

Comment by kjhan

Just an FYI for those who think "if I did the original quests, if I take up engineering now, I might get the schematic", I'll have to burst your bubble.

As at 5.4.8, my priest (who did all the Winterspring quests back in BC), decided to try for the pattern, so I dropped mining and picked up engineering, leveled engineering to 264 (past the 250 prerequisite), went to Winterspring to see what was there.

(keep in mind, the first time around, I did the full "Yetiphobia" which involved scaring goblins in winterspring, tanaris and Un'goro)

I found that Lilith and the others had the quests again for me (rock/wood/ice) and during the ice quest, Umi offered me "Are we there yeti" and "Echo three" (but not perfect horns). After completion of these, she clamped up and didn't offer me the new "Yetiphobia", nor did she offer me this quest for the schematic....